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I was hoping this would allow me to ssh into my phone to make/take calls and send/receive texts. Does anyone knows if that's possible?

colobas 8y ago
This seems to suggest that at least the audio can't be relayed. Sad. https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/mobile-devices/how-can-i-receive-a-call-while-using-samsung-dex/ https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/mobile-devices/how-can...
rsync 8y ago
"I was hoping this would allow me to ssh into my phone to make/take calls and send/receive texts. Does anyone knows if that's possible?" I send SMS from the command line by curl'ing twilio ... curl -X POST -d "Body=Hi" -d "From=3032221111" -d "To=4151112222" "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/${account_sid}/Messages" -u "${account_sid}:${auth_token}" I do at least half of my testing this way, from inside my terminal that I am already working in (I wrote a little sms script in /bin/sh). Of course this means that your phone number has to be at twilio (either source the number from them or port it to them).
- colobas 8y ago
  Yeah I'm aware of this, but my use case is different. I'm often abroad, but I also often need to contact numbers from my home country, so I wanted to have a phone I could ssh into from abroad and serve as a gateway
  - voltagex_ 8y ago
    You used to be able to do this with chan_bluetooth on Asterisk, but I would not recommend it.
    - colobas 8y ago
      Why not?
  - shaklee3 8y ago
    Google voice does this perfectly. No use in doing something like ssh that may or may not work.
jraph 8y ago
On Android, Termux lets you read and write texts using the Termux API, and set up an SSH server.
- colobas 8y ago
  cool! that's a start
diffeomorphism 8y ago
Kdeconnect comes to mind. It is more aimed at working on wifi, but you can probably make it work with ssh tunnels or vpn.
ficklepickle 8y ago
Termux:API[1] is close, but doesn't appear to support phone calls. You can record from the mic and send SMS though. [1] - https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux:API https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux:API
- colobas 8y ago
  that's a start. thanks!
voltagex_ 8y ago
Texts are probably possible. (I use Pushbullet, but Android Messages would also work). Only Apple seems to have got the control over the stack to get calls through iPad/macOS. I was hoping that Dell Connect would be an option but it's not clear that voice is pushed through there.
- int_19h 8y ago
  > Only Apple seems to have got the control over the stack to get calls through iPad/macOS. If you're on Google Fi, you can make (and take) phone calls on your desktop via Hangouts.
wtracy 8y ago
I suspect that the VM gets suspended when you undock the phone. I wouldn't count on being able to use it for persistent background services.

colobas 8y ago

This seems to suggest that at least the audio can't be relayed. Sad. https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/mobile-devices/how-can-i-receive-a-call-while-using-samsung-dex/ https://www.samsung.com/hk_en/support/mobile-devices/how-can...

rsync 8y ago

"I was hoping this would allow me to ssh into my phone to make/take calls and send/receive texts. Does anyone knows if that's possible?" I send SMS from the command line by curl'ing twilio ... curl -X POST -d "Body=Hi" -d "From=3032221111" -d "To=4151112222" "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/${account_sid}/Messages" -u "${account_sid}:${auth_token}" I do at least half of my testing this way, from inside my terminal that I am already working in (I wrote a little sms script in /bin/sh). Of course this means that your phone number has to be at twilio (either source the number from them or port it to them).

colobas 8y ago
Yeah I'm aware of this, but my use case is different. I'm often abroad, but I also often need to contact numbers from my home country, so I wanted to have a phone I could ssh into from abroad and serve as a gateway
- voltagex_ 8y ago
  You used to be able to do this with chan_bluetooth on Asterisk, but I would not recommend it.
  - colobas 8y ago
    Why not?
- shaklee3 8y ago
  Google voice does this perfectly. No use in doing something like ssh that may or may not work.

jraph 8y ago

On Android, Termux lets you read and write texts using the Termux API, and set up an SSH server.

colobas 8y ago
cool! that's a start

diffeomorphism 8y ago

Kdeconnect comes to mind. It is more aimed at working on wifi, but you can probably make it work with ssh tunnels or vpn.

ficklepickle 8y ago

Termux:API[1] is close, but doesn't appear to support phone calls. You can record from the mic and send SMS though. [1] - https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux:API https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux:API

colobas 8y ago
that's a start. thanks!

voltagex_ 8y ago

Texts are probably possible. (I use Pushbullet, but Android Messages would also work). Only Apple seems to have got the control over the stack to get calls through iPad/macOS. I was hoping that Dell Connect would be an option but it's not clear that voice is pushed through there.

int_19h 8y ago
> Only Apple seems to have got the control over the stack to get calls through iPad/macOS. If you're on Google Fi, you can make (and take) phone calls on your desktop via Hangouts.

wtracy 8y ago

I suspect that the VM gets suspended when you undock the phone. I wouldn't count on being able to use it for persistent background services.